A message to listeners - one week break
Episode 7 is available on Friday, January 3rd on BBC Sounds.
3 Jan 20251min
6. Playing God
Orla and Kevin Coyle tell the story of their father who was killed as an alleged informer by the IRA. The profound shadow cast by their father’s death has lasted almost 30 years.CreditsReporter: Mark ...
27 Dec 202440min
5. Someone Bigger
Brendan Hughes wants to question Joe Fenton and find the “main mover.” Is Stakeknife suspected? We meet the former IRA man who interviewed Hughes and whose hero was Scappaticci.CreditsReporter: Mark H...
20 Dec 202444min
4. The (Estate) Agent
Mark tells the story of a man called Joe Fenton and how he was connected to Stakeknife. We learn there was a hierarchy of agents, where some were saved and some were not.CreditsReporter: Mark Horgan P...
13 Dec 202438min
3. The FRU
Mark meets two former members of the FRU, the secret army intelligence unit that ran the agent Stakeknife. How did they recruit people? How was Scappaticci recruited?CreditsReporter: Mark Horgan Produ...
6 Dec 202449min
2. Sin É
Mark speaks to the brother of one of the first people interrogated by Stakeknife. We follow Seamus’ journey as he retraces his brothers steps in the days before he was murdered.CreditsReporter: Mark H...
29 Nov 202449min
1. The Man Who Never Was
A man flees Northern Ireland when he’s named as Stakeknife. At a surprise press conference a few days later he denies the charges but a forgotten tape comes back to haunt him.CreditsReporter: Mark Hor...
22 Nov 202437min
Introducing... Stakeknife
In Northern Ireland from 1978 to 1994, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers; people accused of passing information to the police and the British Army. But the man who often found, tortured, and so...
12 Nov 20242min
